Windows. The central pillar of Microsoft and the modern computing world has also been, for the past …
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Unlike Apple, Microsoft doesn't quite have the whole mass-upgrade thing down. There are so many different legacy versions and current versions of Windows that most people only upgrade their OS when they get a new computer. What this means for you is that Microsoft, in an effort to get as many people on to Windows 8 as possible, is making it cheap to upgrade. Microsoft did a similar upgrade program with Windows 7, but a few months after it came out the deals disappeared and people who waited were stuck with $100 or more for an upgrade. So the time to buy Windows 8 is soon.

We finally received the official word on Windows 7 pricing. For the most part, people itching to…
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Microsoft is offering Windows 8 Pro shipped for $70. Amazon's offering the same product, but with $30 of Amazon Credit—which is clearly a better deal. There's always something you want on Amazon (see below). There's an downloadable upgrade for $40, but that doesn't come with a disk, and on release day the servers are going to be pounded with huge downloads. With this deal, you can get a full retail copy of Windows 8 for basically the same price, and then get something nice for yourself.